Best Loaves And Fishes Poems

Rita was visiting. She pointed off the road. Let’s go there. So we did. It was the CIA - Culinary Institute of America. Like Auntie...

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The road to freedom is dark and long. 
To go the distance, I’ll need a song; 
Something easy and strong, 
Like an old-time Shaker hymn,
Simple...

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I Saw God Rob the Poor Box


I saw God rob the poor box
take a beggar out to eat

two burgers and a coffee
a loaves and fishes...

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I saw God rob the poor box
take a beggar out to eat

two burgers and a coffee
a loaves and fishes feast.

I saw God in the alley
drape...

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Adeste Fidelis

confused innocents of limbo,
the unbaptized babies,
ignorant of nonbelief,
denied the Divine countenance. 
What of them today?  Still floating?

Explain that.  Do I believe in...

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Dear Lord this year to save time being lost
remind me- Turkey, Christmas Eve- defrost.
And when it's in the oven, leave no doubt
that I forgot to...

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ONE PAIR OF HANDS
"Make it your ambition...to work with your hands".  1 Thessalonians 4:11

My dad was a coal miner,
Worked with his hands all day.
As...

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He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored...

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What if… you had been there...
When He was born in Bethlehem that night?
What if… you had seen the star,
And heard the angels singing by it’s...

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He was born in a Bethlehem stable, a modest carpenter's son,
Who did wondrous things ere His work on earth was done.
Despite His humble birth, He...

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To blind ones and those cursed with leprosy -
the outcast souls who knew not man's compassion -
he touched and healed, that they might feel and...

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Premiered at The Break Horse Inn, Imperial Beach, CA – 12/9/1996

ACT 1

Tubal Cain’s Bedtime Chant
Haircut
Ballad of an Honest Man
Ingratitudes
Loaves and Fishes
Glory of the Word

ACT 2

It...

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THE FRAGMENT

It was just a fragment--a crumb left in the way,
Left from loaves and fishes people ate that day.
Birds could well have had it, no...

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I say unto you, when the olive branch is brought to the tax collector, let not those who are without mercy be sent forth from...

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Thank you for your still laboring pains.
Thanks for the amnesia of suffering
the bedpan and the bible,
the sunny window
that ran with a watery blood
wherever the flying...

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